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Enrollment
476
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361941004303
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL
197 N COUNTRY RD, MILLER PLACE, NY 11764 · (631) 474-2719 · Suffolk County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL476 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
104 students
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 154 | 32% |
| Grade 4 | 164 | 34% |
| Grade 5 | 158 | 33% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
46.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 42.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-27.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 67% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SOUND BEACH SCHOOL
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL's state test result (39.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUND BEACH SCHOOL this school | 476 | 21.8% | 39.3% |
| FAIRBANKS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHURCHVILLE | 460 | 21.7% | 53.8% |
| KLEM ROAD NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEBSTER | 499 | 22.0% | 56.0% |
| SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAINT JAMES | 461 | 22.3% | 54.8% |
| ANDREW MULLER PRIMARY SCHOOL MILLER PLACE | 427 | 19.9% | N/A |
| FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 515 | 23.3% | 72.2% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SOUND BEACH SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #1,653 of 2,335 | #115 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,614 of 2,342 ▼ 2 | #115 of 169 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,930 of 2,343 ▼ 296 | #140 of 169 ▼ 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 476 | #937 of 2,585 | #88 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,154 of 2,338 | #100 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.1% | #1,725 of 2,388 | #160 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.8% | #2,187 of 2,534 | #138 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #804 of 1,757 | #36 of 137 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
476
-13 (-3%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 620
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 8.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 476 | 40.6 | 11.7:1 | 22% (104) |
| 2023-24 | 488 | 41.8 | 11.7:1 | 19% (91) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 47.2 | 10.0:1 | 15% (72) |
| 2020-21 | 489 | 55 | 8.9:1 | 13% (66) |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 36.5 | 15.5:1 | 14% (78) |
| 2015-16 | 618 | 39 | 15.8:1 | 11% (70) |
| 2010-11 | 653 | 44 | 14.8:1 | 12% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 725 | 39 | 18.6:1 | 3% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 620 | 36 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUND BEACH SCHOOL.
About SOUND BEACH SCHOOL
The public elementary school SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is located in MILLER PLACE, New York. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 476 students in grades 3 through 5.
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is run by MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 4 schools enroll 2,197 students.
At SOUND BEACH SCHOOL, White students make up 79% of the student body. The remaining shares are 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian, and 2% Black. Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school's share is higher. SOUND BEACH SCHOOL's diversity index is 36%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reported 40.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 11.7:1. That is 1.1 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 22%. The average for public schools in Suffolk County is 39%.
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 15% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is 67.0%. It actually posts 39.3%, which is 27.7 points lower and in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Suffolk County, the median household income is $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, ANDREW MULLER PRIMARY SCHOOL, is about 0.1 miles from SOUND BEACH SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 70.2%; SOUND BEACH SCHOOL's is 39.3%, ranking 8th of 8.
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment declined 3% from its 2020-21 level of 489. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 8.9:1 to 11.7:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at SOUND BEACH SCHOOL. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MILLER PLACE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 764 students
- NORTH COUNTRY ROAD SCHOOLMiddle · 530 students
- ANDREW MULLER PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 427 students
Other schools in MILLER PLACE
- MILLER PLACE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 764 students
- NORTH COUNTRY ROAD SCHOOLMiddle · 530 students
- ANDREW MULLER PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 427 students
Nearby schools
- ANDREW MULLER PRIMARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 427
- NORTH COUNTRY ROAD SCHOOL0.2 mi · 530
- MILLER PLACE HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 764
- MOUNT SINAI MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 617
- MOUNT SINAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 657
- ROBERT M GRABLE JR MOUNT SINAI HIGH SCHOOL2.4 mi · 710
Frequently asked questions
About SOUND BEACH SCHOOLHow many students attend SOUND BEACH SCHOOL?
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 476 students in grades 03-05.
Is SOUND BEACH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades 03-05.
How many teachers does SOUND BEACH SCHOOL have?
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
How diverse is SOUND BEACH SCHOOL?
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL reports a student body of 79% White, 13% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is SOUND BEACH SCHOOL in?
SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is part of MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.